The genes of the Australian Aborigines, what can they tell us? Where did their ancestors come from? How long have they been in Australia? What people have married each other? Two recent genetic studies, based on the largest Australian Aboriginal genetic sample collected so far, can give us answers to these questions, and to even more questions. (But well, perhaps not to the question of what people have married each other. Rather, the studies show what people have had kids with each other, and nothing else.) In this video, I discuss what the two studies can show us about the prehistory of the Australian Aborigines. And sorry, creationists, the genes of the Aborigines do in fact show that they have been in the land a lot longer than 6000 years… #AboriginalHistory, #AboriginalPrehistory, #australianhistory, #aboriginalaustralians, #australianaborigines, #Papuans, #DiscoveryofAustralia, #migration, #dna, #Genes, #nature, #LastGlacialMaximum, #PopulationBottleneck, #inbreeding, #Zygosity, #Yarrabah, #queensland, #tiwi, #TiwiIslands, #Yolngu, #ElchoIsland, #Galiwinku, #northernterritory, #Titjikala, #CentralDesert, #papua, #peru, #amazon, #indianterritory, #oklahoma, #cherokee, #MachadoJosephdisease, #mjd, #NationalCentreforIndigenousGenomics